Peter Poole lived in Terrace for a number of years in the late seventies and early eighties and was especially active in the Terrace/Kitimat Labour Council). His interview subects comprised a cross-section of people from different unions and different occupations: for example, a teacher (BCTF), academic faculty from Northwest College (CUPE), a federal fisheries officer (PSAC), a library clerk (BCGEU), pulp mill workers and aluminum smelter workers (CAIMAW and CASAW), and a labourer (Rock & Tunnel Union). Records include one file listing the interviewees and the sound recordings of the interviews.

Sub-series consists of the Associate Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from Cooperative Education during the period in which it reported to the AVP Academic (1985-1996). After 1996, Cooperative Education reported to Student Services, though it later returned again to the VP Academic portfolio in 1999. Activities documented in the correspondence include departmental budget planning, staffing, program development, and the deliberations and activities of the SFU Coop Advisory Council. Records include correspondence, reports, budgets, program proposals, meeting minutes and supporting papers, and a coop student handbook (1993).

Sub-series consists of the Associate Vice-President, Academic's correspondence with, related to, or copied from the Financial Aid and Awards Office during the period in which it reported to the AVP Academic (1984-1994). Note that until 1989, the Office was called simply the Financial Aid Office. From 1994 it reported to the Registrar, where it was eventually merged with other programs to form part of the Student Academic Resources Office. Activities documented in the correspondence include departmental budget planning, program and policy development, and the external review of the department in 1991. The sub-series also includes one file of correspondence with the Community Relations Office. This appears to have been a short-lived office, established around 1986 with the appointment of Vern Loewen (also Director of Financial Aid) as Community Relations Officer; it does not appear to have continued beyond 1987. Records in the sub-series include correspondence, meeting minutes, budgets, statistics and reports.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the allocation of departmental capital budgets to units with the Vice-President, Academic's reporting portfolio. Activities and topics documented include university capital planning, and allocation of funds for departmental computing equipment, renovations and office space. Records include correspondence, requests, SFU capital plans, and architectural plans and drawings.

This sub-series consists of the records of Committee on Future and Committee on Migration. The Committee on Migration was established to investigate possibility of Doukhobors’ return to the land of their forefathers in the Soviet Union. The USCC Executive Committee and the Doukhobor Future Committee (DFC) decided to create two steering Committees. One committee to research the possibility of Doukhobor revival through the development of a desired lifestyle in Canada and the other committee to research such revival in the Soviet Union

Sub-series consists of records relating to Wah’s activities as a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada. Records include correspondence, publications of the union, and administrative records.

The records in this sub-series have been arranged into the following two sub-sub-series: Racial Minorities Committee records, and General records.

Sub-series comprises records relating to the development and delivery of the Elementary Science Workshops, a program designed to improve science instruction by elementary school teachers. Sessions for local teachers were held in the community by a Resource Person while the workshops as a whole were overseen by a Project Coordinator, assisted by a SCWIST program committee. Records consist of correspondence; reports; committee meeting minutes and supporting papers; grant applications and supporting documentation; workshop presentation materials; photographs; and publicity brochures.

This sub-series consists of the Associate Vice-President, Academic's working files as a committee member of SUAB. Records include agendas, minutes, correspondence, reports, policies, and briefs.

This sub-series contains collected original files from Party Office covering constituencies during the 1986 provincial campaign. The files contain provincial campaign promotional material, correspondence, memos, posters and other materials relating to the 1986 campaign and Social Credit candidates in all British Colombia electoral districts.

Series consists of records relating to correspondence between the Vice-President, Research and companies in the local and international research industry field. For a list of these companies, please see access points below.

Document types include correspondence and working papers, reports, and publications.